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Laminarites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Trace Fossils and Problematica
    Class:  
Unrecognized and Unrecognizalbe "genera"
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Laminarites BRONGNIART, 1828, p. 54
    Type Species:  
[no type species designated]


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Description

" Genus" comprising very heterogenous "species"; similar to Laminaria; straight and parallel structures on bedding planes. [Seemingly in part of plant origin (e.g., L. antiquissimus EICHWALD, 1856), in part probably inorganic in origin (e.g., L. lagrangei DE SAPORTA & MARION, 1883), and partly, according to MESCHINELLI & SQUINABOL, 1892, also trails.J




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